Re: [docbook] (non hot-linked) olink reference to book in PDF format

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Dave,
I followed up with Michel Goossens, and now the content has been 
deleted.  Thanks.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

On 2/2/2014 11:51 PM, davep wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Feb 2014 20:38:23 -0800
> Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > The book at xml.web.cern.ch is the early first draft of my book
> > DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide. The cern version is quite out of
> > date. Please use this 4th Edition instead:
> >
> > http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/index.html
> >
> > I have asked Cern to take down that version, but have not reached the
> > right person, I guess.
>
> They had copied the entire XSL FAQ at one time.
>
> http://xml.web.cern.ch/XML/docbook.html#DOCBOOKFAQ  Now removed.
>
> http://xml.web.cern.ch/XML/olddocs.html  lists the set of files they
> have copied. Disgusting
>
> The name at the bottom of the page is michel.goossens@cern.ch
>
> DaveP
>
>
> > Regarding your question, are you using DocBook 4 or 5?  If 5, then
> > your templates need to include the DocBook namespace on element
> > names, such as d:book.  See this page for more information:
> >
> > http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/CustomDb5Xsl.html
> >
> > Bob Stayton
> > Sagehill Enterprises
> > bobs@sagehill.net
> >
> > On 2/2/2014 7:08 PM, natk wrote:
> > > (I originally mistakenly posted this to docbook-apps)
> > >
> > > I've looked into this further, and I have managed to customise the
> > > xref text using the gentext templates. My next question is how do I
> > > format the xreftext?
> > >
> > > I've read and tried to implement the Customising Cross Reference
> > > Style section from:
> > > http://xml.web.cern.ch/XML/www.sagehill.net/xml/docbookxsl/GeneralCustoms.html
> > >
> > >
> > > by adding the following template to my FO customisation layer:
> > >
> > >     <xsl:template match="book" mode="insert.title.markup">
> > >       <xsl:param name="purpose"/>
> > >       <xsl:param name="xrefstyle"/>
> > >       <xsl:param name="title"/>
> > >
> > >       <xsl:choose>
> > >         <xsl:when test="$purpose = 'xref'">
> > >           <fo:inline font-style="italic">
> > >             <xsl:copy-of select="$title"/>
> > >           </fo:inline>
> > >         </xsl:when>
> > >         <xsl:otherwise>
> > >           <xsl:copy-of select="$title"/>
> > >         </xsl:otherwise>
> > >       </xsl:choose>
> > >     </xsl:template>
> > >
> > > but this template does not seem to be having any effect. Any tips
> > > as to what I am doing wrong here?
> > >
> > > I can see that the chapter and appendix xreftext are italicized
> > > (from the standard templates in xref.xsl), but I can't get the same
> > > thing to happen for the book elements.
> > >
> > > Nat
> > >
> > >
> > > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to link between books (without hot-links).
> > >
> > > The text that is generated for everything but the top-level books
> > > is fine. It renders Refer to <olink targetdoc="bookDocId"
> > > targetptr="section"/> as Refer to Section x,y, "Title" in Book
> > > Title.
> > >
> > > But when I olink to the book itself: Refer to <olink
> > > targetdoc="bookDocId" targetptr="bookId"> there is no fo:inline
> > > element, it just renders the book title: Refer to Book Title.
> > >
> > > Is there some configuration or customisation that I can do to get
> > > this to render as something like Refer to Document "Book Title".
> > >
> > > I'm using docbkx 2.0.15 which uses version 1.78.1 of the
> > > stylesheets.
> > >
> > > Nat
> >
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